From: Adam Flinton 

Don Hills wrote:
> In article ,
> Adam Flinton  wrote:
>
>>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/22/coppers_love_porn/
>>
>>"Randy coppers in New Zealand waste so much time surfing for porn while
>>on the job that fully 20 per cent of police computer system capacity is
>>devoted to storing the images, an official audit has revealed."
>
>
> Front page here, coming on the heels of a periodic public "crisis of
> confidence" in the NZ Police and counter-complaints of undermanning and
> overwork.
>
> Showing that numbers are used by the media to sell media, the 20% quoted
> was space on their mail servers. Their mail is supposed to be mainly text.
> Images and documents are supposed to be stored in other repositories so it
> doesn't take much bloat in mail to be noticeable. About 4% of the total
> number of staff (both sworn and non-sworn) were involved. Other figures
> largely ignored by the media showed that the figure compared very favourably
> with porn levels in other organisations, proved also by a breakdown of the
> original sources of the emails. Given that NZ Police officers are
> predominantly young, male and of robust personality(*) I'm surprised the
> problem wasn't bigger. They do periodic audits, this one just attracted more
> attention due to the Police being in the media so much of late.
>
> The Register also showed its compulsion to come up with snappy bylines
> regardless of accuracy - the story was (correctly) reported here as being
> about emails "doing the rounds" of address lists, not about officers
> spending time surfing. Although they do have Web access from their desktops,
> it's well monitored.
>
> (*) I spent 18 months on technical support in their main operations centre
> when they were commissioning the current system. I worked with a *lot* of
> police officers in that time. Compared to typical computer users, they were
> a joy to work with. Clear and concise problem reports, responded quickly to
> messages, focused and helpful when troubleshooting.
>

I suspect that the real problem is in the dept of agriculture where one
man's stock photo is another man's porn....

Adam

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